
Is It Really Just About the Calories?
Food, We Need To Talk
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The Law of Conservation of Energy
There's a couple laws of thermo dynamics, but the one that is centered round calories. When you take a certain number of calories, they are not just going to magically disappear. Energy must be conserved. So in the process of digestion, we actually spend energy. And this is about ten % of the calories that we need any given day. You eat a hundred calories, and it takes an additional ten calories just to burn that fuel. Un it's like a saleis going on, a ten per cent discount on your calories. I think weme to talk to the owner and get a bigger discnt.
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